| Collective Intelligence Revised Edition Contributor(s): Levy, Pierre (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738202614 ISBN-13: 9780738202617 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $21.77 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1999 Annotation: The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of 10 percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Pierre Levy shows how the unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has the potential to liberate us from the social and political hierarchies that have stood in the way of mankind's advancement. Anthropologist, historian, sociologist, and philosopher, Levy writes with a depth of scholarship and imaginative insight rare among media critics. At once a profound historical analysis of the development of human culture and a blueprint for the future, Collective Intelligence is a visionary work. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Computers | Information Technology - Computers | Cybernetics |
| Dewey: 306.42 |
| LCCN: 99066855 |
| Lexile Measure: 1340 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.06" W x 8.05" (0.72 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of 10 percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Pierre L vy shows how the unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has the potential to liberate us from the social and political hierarchies that have stood in the way of mankind's advancement.Anthropologist, historian, sociologist, and philosopher, L vy writes with a depth of scholarship and imaginative insight rare among media critics. At once a profound historical analysis of the development of human culture and a blueprint for the future, Collective Intelligence is a visionary work. |